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I've used http://microformats.org/ in the past for marking up dates, addresses and the like.

Looking at the examples on the Google page (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...) of marking-up breadcrumb links though there is a clear step away from clean functional markup. It looks like the sort of code people make (have made) to add styles to containers and what not. Couldn't semantic info be simply added in any tag available thus:

<a href="/a.htm" typeof="breadcrumb1">a</><a href="/b.htm" typeof="breadcrumb1">b</> ...

Why would that be so hard?

Perhaps further detail could be added by having a typeof-sheet that references the id of a node and details the information it presents (like external CSS).



Microformats.org abuses <abbr> and title="", hurting usability and accessibility.

Microdata provides a less horrific way to express the data in question.




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